do battle

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do battle

To fight or argue with someone or something. Once politics are mentioned at family dinners, everyone starts doing battle.Oh, I've done battle with the principal about my curriculum many times before—I'm not worried.

King Uriens was there, a kind-faced old man with a subdued look; and also the son, Sir Uwaine le Blanchemains, in whom I was, of course, interested on account of the tradition that he had once done battle with thirty knights, and also on account of his trip with Sir Gawaine and Sir Marhaus, which Sandy had been aging me with.

Now while he lay and wondered, the mouth of the cave was darkened, and through it entered that same lad who had done battle with the lioness and been overthrown by her, bearing a dead buck upon his shoulders.

It is to Pot Three Capello must look if he is to be pitched into a contest against the oldest of enemies, who have not done battle since 1999 when a brave Scotland second-leg fightback at Wembley only just failed to rip a place at Euro 2000 from England's grasp.

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